“Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentDemocracyIntegrityEthicsDesperateAgendasAmbitiousFillingPublic Service Author:Walter Cronkite
“Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.” PeopleHelpingWould BeAbleAmericaBlackWhitePoorDemocracyKingsRedDignityOvercomingSouthEverydayLive LifeBrownAgendasYellowBetter PlacePoor PeopleDecencyLutherApartheidRed And Yellow Author:Cornel West
“Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.” PeopleAmericaBlackDemocracyRightsSlaveryWorkersAgendasBlack PeopleSplitsWomens RightsFrederick Douglas Author:Cornel West
“All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole. The black agenda - from Frederick Douglas to A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr, Fannie Lou Hammer to Ella Baker - has always been tied to race talk inseparable from expanding possibilities of democracy, expanding empowerment of everyday people.” PeopleWholeBlackWhitePoorRaceDemocracyPossibilityKingsEmpowermentEverydayLegacyEmpoweringAgendasTiedWhite SupremacyExpandingHammersLutherInseparableSupremacyPhilipBakersFrederick Douglas Author:Cornel West
“My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.” TryingHumansJobsPresidentDemocracyRightsPolicyHuman RightsAgendasForeign PolicyAmerican Foreign PolicyDemocracy And Human Rights Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.” PeopleCountryWishDemocracyNeededElectionScalesAgendasApathyCynicismRepresentativesParliamentLarge ScaleElectorate Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.” DemocracyBattleIndiaElectionCorruptionAgendasVersusGovernanceGood Governance Author:Narendra Modi
“Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.” WorldLyingOrderDifferencesDemocracyEssentialsPressesAgendasPreservationLicenseFreedom Of The PressDiscredit Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.” PeopleValuesSocialProcessLibertyDemocracyJudgingFunctionConstitutionAgendasFramers Author:Robert Bork
“We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.” PeopleNeedsGivingPoliticalStrongProcessWorryDemocracyGiving UpAgendasProgressiveAmerican Democracy Author:Bernie Sanders
“If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.” IfsLooksChildrenIdeasSchoolTurnsDemocracyCenturyImmigrantsAgendasVotersEducateNineteenth CenturyParticipantsExplicit Author:Dana Goldstein
“It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.” IfsNeedsMatterMovingDemocracyMoving ForwardWho We AreAgendasAffirmative Author:Jill Stein
“Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.” KnowsNeedsHateDemocracyFunctionAgendasAffirmative Author:Jill Stein
“As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.” PeopleShowsPartyHalfDemocracyThirdsAgreeAgendasListenersShowing UpThird Parties Author:Ralph Nader